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Author: Douglas Hustad
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2015-12-15
Total Pages: 51
ISBN-13: 1680772376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn about the great scientist Thomas Edison as he invented the light bulb. You'll read about his life, the science behind his studies, and the impact of his work on the world today.
Author: Monica Rausch
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 083687501X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the impact of the light bulb and effective indoor electric lighting, and recounts the life and career of their inventor, Thomas A. Edison.
Author: Susan E. Hamen
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1512483214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost Americans believe that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. But British scientist Joseph Swan was working on this invention at the same time. Patent battles, lies, and determination fill out this race to create the first usable light bulb!
Author: Ernest Freeberg
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-01-28
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0143124447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
Author: Robert Friedel
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2010-07-19
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0801899443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn September 1878, Thomas Alva Edison brashly—and prematurely—proclaimed his breakthrough invention of a workable electric light. That announcement was followed by many months of intense experimentation that led to the successful completion of his Pearl Street station four years later. Edison was not alone—nor was he first—in developing an incandescent light bulb, but his was the most successful of all competing inventions. Drawing from the documents in the Edison archives, Robert Friedel and Paul Israel explain how this came to be. They explore the process of invention through the Menlo Park notes, discussing the full range of experiments, including the testing of a host of materials, the development of such crucial tools as the world's best vacuum pump, and the construction of the first large-scale electrical generators and power distribution systems. The result is a fascinating story of excitement, risk, and competition. Revised and updated from the original 1986 edition, this definitive study of the most famous invention of America's most famous inventor is completely keyed to the printed and electronic versions of the Edison Papers, inviting the reader to explore further the remarkable original sources.
Author: Scott R. Welvaert
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780736896511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA graphic novel depiction of Thomas Edison's involvement in the development of the incandescent lightbulb.
Author: Holly Cefrey
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2002-12-15
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780823964406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a biographical sketch of Thomas Alva Edison and a description of some of his most important inventions.
Author: Shaaron Cosner
Publisher: Walker & Company
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780802765277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the electric bulb, an invention at first ridiculed, distrusted, and feared, which ultimately led to new uses of electricity and transformed society.
Author: Deborah Hedstrom-Page
Publisher: B&H Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780805432718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMy American Journey series offers easy-to-read illustrated history books for grade-schoolers about inventors, social leaders, explorers, and government officials.
Author: Gene Barretta
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Published: 2012-07-17
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1466816848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat do record players, batteries, and movie cameras have in common? All these devices were created by the man known as The Wizard of Menlo Park: Thomas Edison. Edison is most famous for inventing the incandescent lightbulb, but at his landmark laboratories in Menlo Park & West Orange, New Jersey, he also developed many other staples of modern technology. Despite many failures, Edison persevered. And good for that, because it would be very difficult to go through a day without using one of his life-changing inventions. In this enlightening book, Gene Barretta enters the laboratories of one of America's most important inventors.
